diff --git a/Web Pages/documentation.html b/Web Pages/documentation.html index 87bb23d..3d7e1ee 100644 --- a/Web Pages/documentation.html +++ b/Web Pages/documentation.html @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@

My original intention with this page was to simply save useful links so I could refer back to them, but I thought it might be better to include some of my thoughts on why I made certain decisions (e.g. website hosting) to help anyone else looking to build a website from scratch. You can follow development of my website - and make suggestions on GitHub. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. + and make suggestions on GitHub. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Website Hosting

@@ -62,7 +62,13 @@ I originally opted to create my own site and host it on U of M Servers. Information on how to do this can be found on the UMICH Information and Technology Services website. Some limitations I found with this were that I would have to manually upload my website files to the afs directory as the SFTP process described did not work for me. Additionally, - the domain name for U of M hosted websites take the form http://www-personal.umich.edu/~youruniqname/ which is clearly not ideal. + the domain name for U of M hosted websites take the form http://www-personal.umich.edu/~youruniqname/ which is clearly not ideal. You can sort of + get around this by enabling web forwarding on Google Domains. + All this does is redirect traffic from your custom domain to the U of M domain. This might be ok for you, but I would prefer to have my website show + up at the domain I purchased. Per Yash Vesikar's recommendation, I looked into GitHub Pages + to host my website directly from a GitHub repository. This comes with the added benefit that changes are live as soon as you push them to the master branch + of your <username>.github.io repository. I found Trent Yang's post + about setting up Google Domain for GitHub pages very useful.

HTML / CSS Features

diff --git a/Web Pages/index.html b/Web Pages/index.html index 6ee0ce7..60ffc51 100644 --- a/Web Pages/index.html +++ b/Web Pages/index.html @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ please see the documentation page.

This website is currently a work in progress and updates will be made as I find time. - You can follow development and make suggestions on GitHub. + You can follow development and make suggestions on GitHub.